Did you know the association posts all request for
applicants and proposal grant notices we receive online
for members only? These postings can be found under the
announcement section of the ARO
website.

Recently
posted grant opportunities:

NOHR:
RFA - Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration Research
Grant

RFA -
2012 Central Otolaryngology Research Efforts (CORE)
Grants

RFA -
Knowles Hearing Center Research Grant Opportunity

DRF: RFA
- Junior and Senior-Level Investigators

TRC:
RFA - Clinical Trials of Treatment for Tinnitus

TRC: RFA - Epidemiology of Tinnitus

TRC: RFA -
Behavioral Neurobiology of Tinnitus: Mechanisms of or
Sites Associated with the Percept of or Reactions to
Tinnitus

TRC: RFP - Development and Validation of a Behavioral
Animal Model of Emotional or Autonomic Reactions
to Tinnitus

Access
JARO Articles

Having
issues accessing the full listings of articles on the
JARO site? Are you logging in correctly?

Lately
we have been receiving many emails here requesting how
to access full downloads for each published article.

Members no longer need to have a separate
username and password to access the journal. Simply log
onto the ARO website's
members only section, hover over JARO, and a drop down
menu will appear that contains a link for member access
to the articles.

I
would like to congratulate Dr. Linda Hood as the
new ARO Editor and Council member. I have had the
pleasure to serve as your Editor and on the
Council since 2000 and I have enjoyed all previous
ARO meetings since 1976. During my tenure as
Editor, we have been through two major revisions
of the ARO website and a gradual transition from
printed to electronic ARO materials in order to
keep costs down and communicate with the
membership more effectively. ARO has also been
trying to find a new home since we outgrew the
Tradewinds hotel in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida,
and it now appears that we have decided to
alternate an east and west coast venue. We
searched for years for an affordable hotel on the
beach in Florida in the winter, but realized that
it was the high quality of the scientific content
and great colleagues that were our strengths and
not the meeting location. ARO is unique in that we
make an effort to integrate basic science with
clinical applications by encouraging M.D.'s to
attend and present at our meeting. The result has
been that we all gain an appreciation of each
others' research strengths as we try to understand
basic mechanisms in communication disorders and
how that information applies to medical
therapies.

There
are many people within the organization and at
Talley who made my volunteer job manageable and
enjoyable, but there are a few individuals who
provided outstanding service to the ARO. First, I
would like to thank Dr. David Lim for starting
this organization, for his friendship, and for
providing his ongoing leadership and historical
perspective of the ARO. We are fortunate to have
him continue as the Historian and for his
continued wise advice to the Council and
President, who have rather short terms of service
and little institutional memory. I wish also to
thank Drs. Judy Dubno who was president and Mario
Ruggero who was the program chair during that
particularly difficult time when we first started
working with Talley management company and a new
abstract processing service. It was through their
intense efforts and minor miracles that year that
we had a successful meeting. The successful growth
of the ARO was also made possible with the
outstanding efforts of Lisa Astorga and Darla
Eastlack of Talley. Lisa has done a wonderful job
with hotel contracts and meeting management. For
the Editor, Darla helped me greatly, as she was
not only skilled with all of the website issues,
but worked with the printers and abstract
processing company as well. Darla, David, and Lisa
provided outstanding service to the Council as
they could recall every detail of our procedures,
policies and how we dealt with problems in the
past. They also provided important advice to the
Treasurer/Secretary to keep a lid on expenses
since many people who come to the Council want to
spend ARO funds for their worthy causes. I also
enjoyed working with the various presidents of the
ARO, and gaining interesting perspectives from
both the MDs and Ph.D.s. Since this job takes
considerable time, I wish Linda the best possible
success and offer my advice if she desires it. I
also look forward to having more time for my
research and to explore a new exciting initiative
that I hope will lead to a better understanding of
how to ameliorate hearing loss in humans. Thank
you again for electing me to so many terms and for
letting me serve as your Editor and on the ARO
Council.

Sincerely,

Peter
Santi, Ph.D., Editor
ARO

2012 Election
Results

Thank
you once again to all members who voted in the
2012 ARO election. Congratulations, to the
newly elected members, who are:

ARO
takes great pleasure in inviting you to
participate in the 35th MidWinter Meeting. The
meeting will be held February 25-29,
2012 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt
Hotel, San Diego, CA, USA. The Program will
consist of Workshops, Plenary Sessions, Symposia
and Oral and Poster Abstract
Presentations.

The
ARO Program Committee is presently soliciting
proposals for Symposium and Workshops for the
2013 MidWinter Meeting.
Symposiums are
organized as a series of oral presentations on a
theme. Preference will be given to proposals that
strive for timely syntheses across or within
existing disciplines or explorations of new
approaches that will expand research in new
directions. Speakers from outside the usual ARO
circle are encouraged insofar as they might
contribute a novel perspective. Note that the ARO
will reimburse coach-class travel expenses and
will pay a small honorarium for non-ARO-member
symposium and workshop speakers.

Workshops
can be on topics of interest to a focused subgroup
of ARO members or might focus on a particular
technical innovation. Workshops often are
scheduled for late afternoon or early
evening.

The
Program Committee encourages participation in
symposium and workshops by non-U.S.
scientists.

Proposal
submission involves three steps: electronic
submission of the downloadableSymposium and Workshop
Proposal form, submission of a Letter
of Intent, and followed by solicitation of a
Formal Proposal (all to be done
electronically via email). Proposal forms
and Letters of Intent are requested with a strict
due date of Sunday, February 26, 2012, at
12:00 noon -earlier submission is
encouraged if possible. The letter can be emailed
to the Program Committee chair (preferred) or
hand-delivered to the ARO Registration desk (attn:
Lisa Astorga) at the 2012 MidWinter
Meeting.

Letter of Intent should
include:

Name of the organizer with contact
information, including email

The session title

A brief (<300 word) description of
the theme and target audience

A tentative list of speakers (4 to 7),
with descriptive titles of their topics.
Indicate whether each speaker has been
contacted and agreed to participate. Not all
speakers need to have committed at this
point.

The
program committee will meet during the 2012
MidWinter Meeting to select the topics of
interest. Formal proposals will then be solicited.
The formal proposals will include agreements to
participate from all the speakers, brief
preliminary abstracts for each talk and time
schedule. Solicited formal proposals will be due
on Friday March 16th at 6:00 pm PST. The Program
Committee will evaluate the proposals shortly
thereafter and will make the final selections.
Note that the final abstract for each symposium or
workshop talk will be due at the regular abstract
submission time, September 1 - October 1,
2012.

Send
proposals to: Email:
llustig@ohns.ucsf.edu

We hope to see you at
the 35th MidWinter Meeting
in San Diego, CA. Call
us at (856) 423-0041 with any questions.